How to Make Partner Podcast

How to make Partner is the place to learn about how to progress your career in professional services and what the partners in your firm are really looking for. howtomakepartner.substack.com

How to Make Partner Podcast is a education podcast hosted by Heather Townsend, with 64 episodes on record and a Required Pod Score of 80. PitchCentric scores this show on Booking Probability, Listen Score, and live audience signals refreshed every 24 hours.

Heather Townsend hosts How to Make Partner Podcast, a education show with 64 episodes published.

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  Episode #55

  Direction: The question no one asks before going for partner

  Jun 6, 20269 minS1

  <p>Only 44% of professionals pursuing partnership have truly considered whether the partner role is right for them and made an informed decision about it. More than half are moving towards one of the biggest career commitments of their lives without ever properly asking: is this what I actually want?</p><p>This episode covers the second of the 12 key indicators of partnership readiness: Direction. Using the real story of a lawyer who only discovered the partnership wasn't right for her when a hard choice forced the question, this episode explores what it means to have genuine clarity about your direction...

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  Episode #54

  Mindset - The most technically brilliant professionals don’t always make partner.

  May 30, 20267 minS1

  <p>The most technically brilliant professionals don't always make partner. This episode explores why, through the lens of the first, and most important, of the 12 key indicators of partnership readiness: Mindset.</p><p>Using the real example of a lawyer with 98.5% utilisation who was asked to wait another year, this episode unpacks the fundamental difference that separates the people who make partner from those who don't. It's not about working harder. It's about understanding what you're actually being assessed on, and adjusting what you are optimising for.</p><p>In this episode you will learn:</p><p>Why partnership is...

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  Episode #53

  What Should Actually Be in Your Default Diary

  May 23, 20268 minS1

  <p>Most lawyers on the partnership track have tried time blocking. You carve out the slots, and then a real deadline arrives and the block gets sacrificed. The problem isn't your discipline. It's that most people are time blocking the wrong things: treating their diary like a to-do list with timestamps rather than a deliberate design for the kind of partner they're trying to become.</p><p>In a recent group coaching session with lawyers on the partnership track, one had BD and junior team check-ins locked in weekly. One had planning blocks she kept using for other things. One's...

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  Episode #53

  Why Delegation Keeps Failing (And It's Not What You Think)

  May 16, 20269 minS1

  <p>Most of us land on "I'm bad at delegating" or "they weren't up to it" and then quietly decide to do it ourselves next time. But that pattern isn't a skills problem. It's an identity problem, and it's one of the main reasons professionals on the partnership track stay overloaded and under-strategic for far too long.</p><p>Drawing on a recent group coaching session with lawyers on the partnership track, this episode unpicks why delegation really fails: the briefing gap, the missing checkpoints, and the confusion between being responsible for the outcome and feeling you have to do...

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  Episode #51

  How to turn tough feedback into your best career asset

  May 9, 202613 minS1

  <p>Are you secretly dreading your next piece of feedback? Do you find yourself going into defence mode the moment someone tells you something you don't want to hear?</p><p>You're not alone. And it's not a character flaw. Your brain is literally wired to treat negative feedback as a threat, triggering a fight-or-flight response that makes it almost impossible to hear what's actually being said. The result? You either shut down, go on the defensive, or walk away without extracting the really valuable data that could transform your career trajectory.</p><p>In this episode, Heather explores the...

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